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The Mets playing against the Cincinnati Reds during an April 2001 away game at Cinergy Field.. The 2001 New York Mets season was the 40th regular season for the Mets. The 2001 Mets entered the season as defending National League champions, aiming to win the National League East from the Braves and return to a second consecutive World Series and win it.
The Mets lost 120 games in their inaugural season, the second-most by an MLB team behind the 2024 Chicago White Sox. [3] After six more years in which their best league finish was ninth, the Mets won the World Series in 1969, defeating the Baltimore Orioles in five games to earn what is widely considered one of the biggest upsets in baseball ...
Locally, the Arizona–St. Louis portion of the 2001 NLDS was called on KTAR-AM in Phoenix by Greg Schulte, Jeff Munn, Rod Allen (Games 4–5) and Jim Traber, and on KMOX-AM in St. Louis by Jack Buck (Games 3–4), Mike Shannon and Dan McLaughlin (Games 1–2, 5), while the Atlanta–Houston portion of the 2001 NLDS was called on WSB-AM in ...
The 2001 Major League Baseball season finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games for the World Series championship. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. pushed the end of the regular season from September 30 to October 7.
The 2001 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2001 season.The 97th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Arizona Diamondbacks and the three-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion New York Yankees.
The Mets loved their chances to win the game with starter Luis Severino, who was 7-2 with a 2.96 ERA at Citi Field this season. Yet, after pitching a 1-2-3 first inning, he struggled with his control.
In a rare end-of-season doubleheader, the Mets took Game 1 and the Braves took Game 2, sending both to the playoffs. ... Lindor then singled to score Alvarez, cut Atlanta's lead to 3-2 and chase ...
The Mets spent 34 days of the 1999 season leading the National League East Division, but—following a seven-game losing streak from September 21–28 along with an eight-game winning streak by their division rival Atlanta Braves from September 19–28 — the Braves took a commanding 8-game lead in the division that they did not relinquish.